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What they did was keep the quail in grow off brooder pens with each of the 5 levels with a different feed ration. Over the course of the year, they checked the fertility rate by incubating (I bet they threw a ton of eggs away using that method) and weight gain/loss by weighing them weekly.
Nothing too scientific, but I bet catching those little buggers to weigh them was interesting for the kids! They put each one in a small cage on a scale and then marked them with a erasable marker. By the next week the old mark was gone.
We'll have to see if my feed works as good as theirs did. Every mill seems to be different. I screwed up and bought some layer feed for my chickens one year from the store when it was on sale for a few bucks less than from my mill. They stopped laying! Since I sell eggs, the few bucks I tried to save cost me big time.
What they did was keep the quail in grow off brooder pens with each of the 5 levels with a different feed ration. Over the course of the year, they checked the fertility rate by incubating (I bet they threw a ton of eggs away using that method) and weight gain/loss by weighing them weekly.
Nothing too scientific, but I bet catching those little buggers to weigh them was interesting for the kids! They put each one in a small cage on a scale and then marked them with a erasable marker. By the next week the old mark was gone.
We'll have to see if my feed works as good as theirs did. Every mill seems to be different. I screwed up and bought some layer feed for my chickens one year from the store when it was on sale for a few bucks less than from my mill. They stopped laying! Since I sell eggs, the few bucks I tried to save cost me big time.
